Overview & Status

Overview
This site presents the results, the data and the data products resulting from
the LBC commissioning.
The final goal of the commissioning is a full characterization of all
instrumental
imprints in the LBC data, and of an optimal strategy for data reduction.
As described in the policy
, we (the "LBC team") have been endorsed to coordinate the
reduction and analysis of existing and future LBC commissioning data,
but we welcome the efforts of interested observers experienced with
imaging data reduction from other partner institutions. The goal is
to obtain an "expanded "commissioning team", charged with producing
the information necessary for reliable reduction of LBC data, in a
truly international partnership. At this purpose, we are setting up
dedicated wiki pages and other tools to organize the work. In the
meanwhile, potentially interested participants may contact Adriano
Fontana.

StatusThe commissioning of the Blue Channel of LBC has been done during
three consecutive runs
in mid Oct, Nov and Dec, the latter ending on Dec 28.
Most of the scientifically useful data has been taken in Nov and Dec.
Most of the analysis done so far has been performed on the data taken
in Nov.
These data are often plagued by
guiding problems, that have been solved in December, but they allow a
first
analysis of the basic characteristics of the camera - basically
photometric zero
points, flat fields, astrometric solutions.
It is important to remark that the analysis of the commissioning data
is far from being complete. Because of the continuous improvement done
on LBC, and following the results of the ongoing data analysis, it is
likely that further observations will be used to fully characterize
the instrument. At this purpose, we plan to use the ancillary and
scientific observations obtained during the SDT.
The commissioning of LBC (here intended as the data analysis and
product delivery) will continue over the next months and will likely
merge with the commissioning of the red channel.